Documents related to animal testing

Annual Reports on animal testing

• Report on the Development, Validation and Legal Acceptance of Alternative Methods to Animal Tests in the Field of Cosmetics (2009) [55 KB]
  • Technical report - Alternative (Non-Animal) Methods for Cosmetics Testing: Current Status and Future Prospects - 2010 [2 MB]
• Report on the Development, Validation and Legal Acceptance of Alternative Methods to Animal Tests in the Field of Cosmetics (2008) [66 KB]
  • Cosmetics Technical Report drafted by ECVAM in 2008/2009 in support of the preparation of the above report [674 KB]
• Report from the Commission to the Council and the European Parliament - Report on the Development, Validation and Legal Acceptance of Alternative Methods to Animal Tests in the Field of Cosmetics (2007)
  • Cosmetics Technical report drafted by ECVAM in 2006/2007 in support of the preparation of the above report [678 KB]
• Report from the Commission to the Council and the European Parliament - Report on the Development, Validation and Legal Acceptance of Alternative Methods to Animal Tests in the Field of Cosmetics (2005)
  • Cosmetics Technical report drafted by ECVAM in 2005/2006 in support of the preparation of the above report [312 KB]
• Commission report for 2004 to the Council and the European Parliament on the Development, Validation and legal Acceptance of Alternative Methods to Animal Tests in the Field of Cosmetics
• 1997 Commission report on the development, validation and legal acceptance of alternative methods to animal experiments in the field of cosmetics [2 MB]

Preparation Technical Report "Alternative (non-animal) Methods for Cosmetics Testing: Current Status and Future Prospects - 2010"

In view of the upcoming 2013 deadline for the marketing ban, the Commission will report to the European Parliament and the Council on the availability of alternatives by 2013. In order to prepare this report and to gain a broad and objective picture of the situation the Commission requested a technical report from an expert panel and submitted the draft report to a public consultation.

Consultation document

Results individual responses

1. Agence française de sécurité sanitaire des produits de sante
2. COLIPA
3. David W Roberts 
4. Dupont global centres for health and environmental sciences 
   <>Chapter 1 – Chapter 2 – Chapter 3 – Chapter 4 – Chapter 5
5. European Coalition to End Animal Experiments 
   <>Chapter 1 – Chapter 2 – Chapter 3 – Chapter 4 – Chapter 5
6. European Federation for Cosmetic Ingredients 
7. Freie Universität Berlin, Germany 
8. Fund for the Replacement of Animals in Medical Experiments 
9. Institute of environmental medicine, Karolinska institutes, Stockholm, Sweden 
   <>Chapter 1 – Chapter 2 – Chapter 3 – Chapter 4 – Chapter 5
10. Istituto Superiore di Sanita, Italy 
11. Johnson and Johnson
12. PCRM, PETA, PETA UK 
13. Petition
14. Scientific Committe on Consummer safety 
15. Technical University of Denmark
16. U.S. Food and Drug Administration 
17. Vrije Universiteit Brussel - Belgium 
    <>Chapter 1 – Chapter 2 – Chapter 3 – Chapter 4 – Chapter 5

Results Summary Report

Alternative (Non-Animal) Methods for Cosmetics Testing: Current Status and Future Prospects - 2010

• Final report   
• Main findings of the report

Report for establishing the timetable for phasing out animal testing for the purpose of the Cosmetics Directive

This 2004 report served as basis for the timetable that the Commission needed to prepare in order to estimate the time for phasing out the animal tests as required in the 7th amendment of the cosmetic Directive.

• Overview [14 KB]
• Executive Summary [554 KB]
• Chapter 1 [18 KB]
• Chapter 2 [57 KB]

• Chapter 3
  • Acute toxicity [56 KB]
  • Skin Irritation / Corrosion [76 KB]
  • Eye Irritation [228 KB]
  • Skin Sensitisation [2 MB]
  • Skin absorption / penetration [18 KB]
  • Subacute and subchronic toxicity [965 KB]
  • Genotoxicity / mutagenicity [2 MB]
  • UV induced effects [98 KB]
  • Toxicokinetics and Metabolism [158 KB]
  • Carcinogenicity [670 KB]
  • Reproductive and developmental toxicity [9 MB]
• Appendix
  • Appendix 1A [12 KB]
  • Appendix 1B [17 KB]
  • Appendix II [17 KB]
  • Appendix III [28 KB]
  • Appendix IV [17 KB]

For download:
<>Complete report in PDF with bookmarks as ZIP file (2Mb) [1 KB]

Commission Recommendation

• Commission Recommendation of 7 June 2006 Establishing guidelines on the use of claims referring to the absence of tests on animals pursuant to Council Directive 76/768/EEC